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...that very aloofness that creates and sustains her magic, that Garboesque detachment?hers exclusively in Asia?that has brought her to the edge of big-time success. Flashback to the making of Beijing Rocks last year. Stuck on a field, in a trailer on the set outside Beijing, she is sitting next to Geng Le, the film's top star, both of them shivering. It's 3:00 a.m. and -10 C, and the rain pelts. She is in role-playing mode and shoots Geng a deterrent look as he prepares to speak. "Careful. Say a bad word...
...awful accent); and her "lesson" with a guru (Marlon Brando) whose accent keeps changing from East Indian to New Yawk in mid-sentence. Henry and director Christian Marquand's work on the rest of the movie isn't nearly as successful, or true to Southern's style (the gaudy trailer included on the DVD edition of the movie has the ironic tag line "Is Candy faithful? Only to the book"). Though the middle section is downright dull - that's what fast-forward buttons and chapter stops were designed for - the finale is the sort of thing that could've only...
...have, by the standards of most of human history, died and gone to a heaven that they scarcely deserve - why are we forced to shop for them under a steady downpour of moronic canned music? This horrible amenity punishes the senses with throbbing, moaning, whining agitations of the stupidest trailer trashiness that venality can distill...
Cheap is one reason why many snowbirds spend 10 months a year in Mexico and then "vacation" back north during the hot summer. They can live comfortably on $500 a month, renting a plot for a trailer. Splurging, they can build an adobe mansion with a hot tub and a view of the sea for $80,000. A local doctor makes house calls for less than $20; prescription drugs often cost less than a third of their price in the U.S.--and for serious medical problems, a U.S. hospital is a three-hour drive away. At twilight, the dune buggies...
...parking lot,” he told the crowd of 400, “and if you look further, you’ll see a trailer truck depot. But that is not the future. This building is symbolic because it faces Boston. It’s the first building on this campus to do that and we did it on purpose. We wanted to signal the future of this school and the future of this University...